TRUMP'S ROMAINE LETTUCE FIASCO

Huge agri-businesses in California and Arizona deliver most of the lettuce, spinach, and cabbage we buy. Greens are mostly eaten raw so any — hold your nose — fecal material that might have attached to it doesn’t get cooked away. Giving them a bath in your kitchen sink isn’t enough. At least 43 people fell ill in such a wide swath of the country that there had to be a “clean break,” with a warning that all romaine could be contaminated.*


How did Trump cause the Romaine lettuce plague you ask?

There oughta be a law to make sure that animal waste and the E. coli bacteria that comes with it doesn’t find its way to your table. There is. Before Congress was paralyzed, it occasionally saw a problem and moved to fix it. The Food Safety Modernization Act signed by President Barack Obama in 2011 was the first attempt since 1938 to improve the safety of what we eat. A more stringent requirement for growers to test water for the strain of E. coli that makes us sick grew out of that law.*

The government was slated to start testing samples this year. Instead it’s now 2022 and could be later yet. Sarah Sorscher of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says the FDA was right when it said the rules on agricultural water could have been improved. “But then they started talking about the regulatory burden on farms and you knew the delay was leading towards even less protection,” Sorscher says.*

It’s part of Trump’s M.O. Most regulations are a nail and he’s a hammer. All requirements are pesky and burdensome. Anything with Obama fingerprints on it is particularly bad. He’s going to get government off the backs of hard-working businessmen, even if it kills us.*

I suppose we can't find out how many of those who got sick voted for President Trump.

No doubt there are regulations that are superfluous, but those, or at least nearly all of those, dealing with food safety are there for a reason.

https://www.newsmax.com/margaretcarlson/romaine-lettuce-e-coli-trump/2018/11/30/id/892653/?